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Over the centuries, the tsarist regime proved remarkably skilful at state-building in very adverse circumstances, creating a single imperial polity out of a conglomeration of diverse realms and ethnies, administering it after a fashion, recruiting and putting into the field an army, and devising a fiscal system capable of raising the means to sustain that army. Russia became both a Eurasian empire and a European great power, capable of more than holding its own against other European great powers.
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Hosking, G. (1998). Empire and Nation-Building in Late Imperial Russia. In: Hosking, G., Service, R. (eds) Russian Nationalism Past and Present. Studies in Russia and East Europe . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26532-9_3
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